The tallest dunes in North America sit right in Colorado, creating a surreal landscape of shifting sands, alpine forests, and sparkling streams. Great Sand Dunes National Park is more than just ...

Thanks to images in publications such as this and all across the internet, we know what to expect when we arrive at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve. But imagine the early, unsuspecting ...

DENVER Colorado will become home to the country's newest national park when Interior Secretary Gale Norton officially reclassifies the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. Norton will join Rep. Scott ...

Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress' efforts to convert the tallest sand dunes in North America into a Colorado national park and wildlife refuge took a big step Wednesday with a private conservation group ...

At a scenic site of sand dunes in northwest Colorado, land managers want more “boots on the ground” through a new collaboration. “Active management” was another phrase often repeated at a recent ...

It’s a park centered around mounds of sand that go on for 30 square miles, right up against the sort of Colorado landscape one has every reason to expect: mountains with snow on top, rushing creeks, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Enchanted by the notion of falling asleep under the stars with a fresh mountain breeze, but not so jazzed on setting up a tent, digging a hole when nature ...